Kaminsky's DNS hack

Jul 23, 2008 19:20


beezari posted a copy of the leaked Matasano explanation of Kaminsky's new DNS attack. I believe the explanation isn't quite right. In his interview in the WIRED Threat Level blog Kaminsky mentions that the attack relies on CNAMEs. This means that it does not depend on glue nor on additional section processing, which is what Matasano described. I believe the real explanation is...

$ md5 <~/doc/kaminsky ef96f2d9e973a36e825793ddeff48ae5
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